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RE: Explaining the Vote-Bot Abuse and @Grumpycat Ultimatum Situation
Banding together and valuing what your friends create, so long it's not shit, is honestly, the only real way I see of making Steemit work for most people.
So you make circles of people with good content, and you reward one another because you think they deserve it, and because no one else would.
Also, yes, it's also that even if you do spend those 12 months and get that following, it's even less certain than writing and getting paid for it in the real world, because the moment you piss off the wrong person, or they just decide to take more of the share to themselves, your earning will be impacted.
So many things to worry over, which leaves little mental space for you know, actually writing.
Exactly. Which is why when I suggested some kind of 'bot' or 'trail' or something for a group of fiction writers who were close and would always want to upvote one another but sometimes miss each other's content, and that idea was shot down as something that would piss off a whale because we aren't doing the work of real curation... well, my attitude was "Really? Some whale is gonna give two shits about us ensuring our 1-10 cents goes to people we value and trust to create good content, when there are posts out there that are literally nothing but a placeholder getting hundreds?"